LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

80.55 in. (204.60 cm.) (height) by 60.87 in. (154.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Trafalgar Galleries, In the Light of Caravaggio, 1 June-9 July 1976, as ‘Ribera’.Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652), 4 December 1982-6 February 1983, no. 30, as ‘Ribera’.Warsaw, The Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum, 10 April-23 September 1990, no. 36, as ‘Ribera’.Monaco, Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation, Opus Sacrum. The Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, 1995, as ‘Ribera’.

Literature:

B. Llewellyn and C. McCorquodale, ‘In the Light of Caravaggio’, Connoisseur, 192, no. 772, June 1976, pp. 110-13, fg. 4.T. Crombie, ‘Masters of Light and Shade’, Apollo, June 1976, p. 524.N. Spinosa, L’opera completa del Ribera, Milan, 1978, pp. 123-4, no. 200, illustrated.The Burlington Magazine, 123, no. 942, September 1981, p. xvii, illustrated.An Art Odyssey 1500-1720. Classicism, Mannerism, Caravaggism & Baroque, exhibition catalogue, Matthiesen Fine Art, London, 2001, p. 310, illustrated, as ‘Ribera’.Luca Giordano 1634-1705, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 2001, p. 160.N. Spinosa, Ribera, Naples, 2006, p. 408, no. D10, illustrated, under ‘attribuzioni respinte’.

Provenance:

Carlo del Chiaro, Florence, 1839.Prince Anatole Demidoff of San Donato, Florence (1812-1870); (†) sale, Paris, 3-4 March 1870, lot 200.Anonymous sale; Heberle, Cologne, 10 June 1913, lot 17, as 'Luca Giordano'.André Marie, Président du Conseil des Ministres, Paris, until 1975.with Trafalgar Galleries, London.The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 1984.